About

editor in cheifBRI BRUCE (writing as B. L. Bruce) holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in post-modern literature and creative writing from the University of California at Santa Cruz with post-graduate work with UC Berkeley’s professional editing program.

An award-winning author, photographer, publisher, and freelance graphic designer, Bruce’s work has appeared in dozens of anthologies, magazines, and literary publications, including The Sun Magazine, Tattoo Highway, Ampersand, Red Fez Entertainment, The Cossack, The Avocet Review, Atom Magazine, Northwind Magazine, The Soundings Review, and The Monterey Poetry Review, and is a widely published haikuist with work in the American Haiku Society’s Frogpond Journal, Modern Haiku, seashores, Akitsu Quarterly, folk ku, and many others.

Bruce was named Featured Poet of Homebound Publications’ holiday issue of The Wayfarer (Vol. 2, Issue 4, Dec. 2013) followed by the inclusion of seven of her poems in the Poems from Conflicted Hearts anthology alongside Poet Laureate Alice Shapiro. In addition to receiving the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize, Bruce was also the recipient of PushPen Press’s Pendant Prize for Poetry for her haiku series published in THREE with Poet Laureate Erica Goss. In 2023, she was the winner of the Los Gatos Poetry Contest for her piece “Once Each Year,” awarded by town poet laureate Jen Siriganian.

A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and three-time award-winning author, Bruce’s debut collection, The Weight of Snow: New & Selected Poems, published February 2014 by Black Swift Press, earned her the nickname “the heiress of Mary Oliver.” Her second book, 28 Days of Solitude (Back Swift Press, August 2015) was written entirely during her four-week residency in the remote forests of Northern California. Also written during this stay, her chapbook, The Starling’s Song, published April 1st, 2016, was selected as the Honorable Mention of the 2017 Pacific Rim Book Festival in the poetry category. Measures, her third collection of poetry, was released in 2021. Blue California Sky, her fifth book, was published in 2024 with glowing reviews and is available from Finishing Line Press.

From 2016 to 2020, Bruce helped produce an award-winning nature adventure documentary film about Baja California called “The Devil’s Road.”

During the coronavirus shelter-in-place implications, she founded and is editor-in-chief of Humana Obscura, an online and print literary magazine publishing poetry, prose, and artwork with a nature theme.

She was featured on the cover of the June 2020 issue of Books & Buzz Magazine where she talks her shameless bibliophilia, her experience in book design, and her current projects: “How graphic designer Bri Bruce brings beauty to books” (Books & Buzz Magazine, June 2020)

Check out her feature at Shepherd, and her list of best contemporary nature poetry books: https://shepherd.com/best-books/contemporary-nature-poetry

See her recent interview with Brummet Media on her writing process, inspiration, and work: “World of Writing: Poet Interview”

Specializing in all things books and print and digital media, Bri’s professional work has given her the opportunity to work with authors, academics, non-profits, and small businesses, offering writing/editing, graphic design, publishing, and photography services.

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  1. Bri, Glad to find your website today. Thanks for following FIGHTER FAITH. If you would like to receive regular updates by email and receive a free gift, come on back and join my email subscriber list.

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  8. Thank you for following my blog. You have a wonderful background, each area enriching the others, and you live in such a beautiful part of your country. (We are both lucky, to live in countries with such varied and glorious terrain.)

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  13. Hi Bri, glad you found me today! Thanks so much for following my blog, I look forward to all you share on yours!

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    1. Thank you so much 🙂 I’m glad that you took the time to stop by and check things out. If you enjoyed the piece, I encourage you to keep an eye out for my newest book coming this February. It will be available from Amazon and all major eBook retailers. I will make an announcement on release day.

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  20. Hi Bri, thank you for the follow! Please be aware that my blog is a bilingual one. So you may get links to some poems in English as well as to some in Italian… Pictures, on the other hand, have no language barriers 😉
    Keep up the good work.
    Anna

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  25. Many thanks for following Jumping From Cliffs, I hope you’ll find plenty to interest you. You have the inestimable honour of being the 180th follower! I’m afraid there’s no prize though 🙂

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  26. Hello Bri! I’m absolutely delighted you Like my blog enough to Follow. Thank you indeed, much appreciated. What a great site you have. Beautiful pictures. I’ll enjoy dropping by. Thank you again. Best to you, be well. R

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  28. Bri, Thanks for following FIGHTER FAITH, and for your help. If you would like to receive regular updates by email and receive a free gift, come on back and join my email subscriber list.

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  31. Hi Bri, thanks for dropping by my blog and deciding to follow. I hope you won’t be disappointed. I’ll be exploring your blog tomorrow on my day off 🙂

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  34. Hi Bri, I appreciate you following my blog very much! Nice to connect with a fellow writer, and you have accomplished much so far in your life. I’m more in the Late Bloomer category, and I’ll be perusing your blog to learn more about you and your work. All the best! 🙂

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  37. Thanks so much for following my blog! I’m fascinated in the fact that you do professional editing, as I’ve had an interest in editing myself, but I just don’t know how or where to begin in pursuing it.
    You have such a great blog here! 🙂

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  42. Hi,
    Thanks for following my blog. You are a very accomplished person. Reading your about made me wonder if you are familiar with Jack Stuppin’s art. I love his landscapes – vivid, non-traditional and full of energy. (No, I do not work for him or sell his stuff, but seeing one of his paintings by chance in a warehouse gallery in NYC literally lifted me out of a depression once!)

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  43. Thank you and God bless you for the “follow” on my blog “Because of Christ Inspirational Poetry”. It blesses my heart knowing that my poetry is touching others : )

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  44. H! Interesting–I was born and raised in Oakland. As a Kid–a vacation in Los Gatos. I still have a brother and sister living in the Bay Area, God is Good, Good is Great–Trust God–I Do

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